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"Only Manchin knows what's in Manchin's head"
An editorial from the largest (and most liberal) newspaper in West Virginia:
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The only person who ever knows what Joe Manchin will do is Joe Manchin. Sure, he falls in line with his party just like anyone else does. But he’s bucked the party, too. It could be argued there was no one more important to appointing some of Trump’s most controversial picks for high positions — including Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — than Joe Manchin.
He twice flirted with leaving the Senate to come back to West Virginia and run for governor again, including a possible run last year, which would have been two years into a six-year Senate term to which he had just been reelected.
Sure, he can be predictable in some ways. His behavior has never been random, nor impulsive. He zigs and zags just enough to put a question mark over his chair on a Senate seating chart.
He’s never going to fully endorse a Green New Deal as written, as some of his more liberal colleagues and constituents wish he would.
He’s also not going to switch to the Republican Party, as many conservatives wish he would and have urged him to do. Why would he? After decrying the stagnation in Congress for years, suddenly Manchin is one of the Senate’s biggest power brokers.
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The only person who ever knows what Joe Manchin will do is Joe Manchin. Sure, he falls in line with his party just like anyone else does. But he’s bucked the party, too. It could be argued there was no one more important to appointing some of Trump’s most controversial picks for high positions — including Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — than Joe Manchin.
He twice flirted with leaving the Senate to come back to West Virginia and run for governor again, including a possible run last year, which would have been two years into a six-year Senate term to which he had just been reelected.
Sure, he can be predictable in some ways. His behavior has never been random, nor impulsive. He zigs and zags just enough to put a question mark over his chair on a Senate seating chart.
He’s never going to fully endorse a Green New Deal as written, as some of his more liberal colleagues and constituents wish he would.
He’s also not going to switch to the Republican Party, as many conservatives wish he would and have urged him to do. Why would he? After decrying the stagnation in Congress for years, suddenly Manchin is one of the Senate’s biggest power brokers.
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https://www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/editorial/gazette-mail-editorial-only-manchin-knows-whats-in-manchins-head/article_78914ac0-0f57-5264-a13e-f079c2c5ed85.html
